New clonal strain of Candida auris, Delhi, India.

Abstract

A new clonal strain of Candida auris is an emerging etiologic agent of fungemia in Delhi, India. In 12 patients in 2 hospitals, it was resistant to fluconazole and genotypically distinct from isolates from South Korea and Japan, as revealed by M13 and amplified fragment length polymorphism typing.

Dendrogram of amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis of Candida auris isolates from India, Japan, and South Korea and members of C. haemulonii complex. It was constructed by using UPGMA (unweighted pair group method with averages) in combination with the Pearson correlation coefficient and was restricted to fragments of 60–400 bp. Scale bar indicates the percentage similarity.